ISU WR Butler enters draft … In all the excitement of last night’s national championship game our post noting that Iowa State WR Hakeem Butler, a rising junior, had announced that he will be entering the 2019 draft. At 6-5, 225, Butler is a huge receiver with big-play ability who averaged almost 22 yards per catch this fall… Read More »

Iowa DE Nelson enters draft; others stay … Iowa junior DE Anthony Nelson has become the latest underclassmen to announce that they will be entering the 2019 draft. Nelson has imposing size at 6-6, 270 with decent strength and agility. He’s also a solid all-around end who had 45 tackles last fall including 9.5 sacks and 4 other… Read More »

Missou RB Crockett enters draft … Missouri junior RB Damarea Crockett has announced that he will be entering the 2019 draft. The 5-10, 225-pound Crockett looked all the part of an emerging prospect as a true frosh in 2016 when he ran for over 1,000 yards as he averaged almost 7 yards per carry, but he struggled the… Read More »

Buckeyes’ QB Haskins enters draft … Ohio State redshirt sophomore QB Dwayne Haskins has formally announced that he will indeed be entering the 2019 draft where he is currently the consensus #1 prospect at the position. However, while Haskins is the clear top QB prospect for the upcoming draft at this time, there is less of a consensus… Read More »

Hog CB in draft; Boiler LB out … One more player to be added to the list of underclassmen declaring for the 2019 draft as Arkansas junior CB Ryan Pulley has announced that he will be foregoing his final year of college eligibility and entering the upcoming draft. The 5-11, 195-pound Pulley had a breakout year in 2016… Read More »

Top CB, RB prospects enter draft; UGA safety staying put … Two more top underclassmen announced their intention to enter the upcoming draft earlier today with confirmations from Washington redshirt sophomore CB Byron Murphy and Iowa State junior RB David Montgomery will be foregoing their remaining college eligibility and declaring for the 2019 draft. Murphy is considered to… Read More »

Tide, Tigers to battle – again – for college title … For the third time in four years it will be Alabama versus Clemson for college football’s national title when the two hook up Monday in Santa Clara with kick-off set for 8 PM ET on ESPN. And while the series is getting a little old, the fact… Read More »

Pigskin’s prospects review: the latter bowls … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has been over the tapes and worked the data from the second week of the college football bowls and submits this report on which players caught his eye with regard to the 2019 draft.  

Four more draft slots settled … As a result of that amazing finish in Chicago where Bears PK Cody Parkey’s potential game winning FG against Philadelphia dinged off an upright, then bounced off the crossbar and out to give the Eagles a dramatic wild-card win, four more positions in the opening round selection order of the 2019 draft… Read More »

Irish, UCF WRs enter draft … A couple more junior wide receivers announced late this afternoon that they would be entering the 2019 draft including Miles Boykin of Notre Dame and Central Florida’s Dredrick Snelson. Boykin is a big (6-3, 230) receiver who is just starting to scratch the surface after catching 54 passes for just over 800… Read More »

Auburn DT Brown to return to school … No question that the defensive line will be the strength of the early going at the 2019 draft, however, the DL class took a bit of a hit with news that star Auburn junior DT Derrick Brown, who was considered a potential top ten pick, has decided to stay in… Read More »

UB QB; BC CB enter draft … With the clocking ticking on underclassmen thinking about entering the 2019 draft, two more juniors have announced they will be turning pro this winter including Buffalo QB Tyree Jackson and Boston College CB Hamp Cheevers, both of whom are certain to draw plenty of interest from NFL teams. Jackson, for example,… Read More »

Senior Bowl adds Duke’s Jones; 8 others to complete roster … The Senior Bowl announced earlier today that Duke QB Daniel Jones, a fourth-year junior already with his degree in hand, has accepted an invitation to this year’s Senior Bowl where he will be the eighth and final quarterback on the roster for this year’s game. Jones, who… Read More »

Two more enter draft; half dozen stay home … Two more promising juniors entered the 2019 draft earlier today including Iowa SS Amani Hooker and Washington State RB James ‘Boobie’ Williams. The 5-11, 210-pound Hooker was a first team all conference player this fall when he was also named the Big Ten’s DB of the year; a hybrid… Read More »

Thinking outside the Big Blue Box: Some thoughts on where to from here for the Giants … Over the course of the past couple of weeks with another disappointing Giants season we have received a ton of questions asking in some fashion ‘what now’ for the team. Rather than try and answer them all individually, we have chrystalized… Read More »

Underclass announcements hit century mark with latest batch of entrants … Another batch of underclassmen announced today that they would be passing on the final year(s) of eligibility and entering the 2019 draft. Heading the list of the additions to the 2019 draft are a quartet of Georgia juniors including WRs Riley Ridley and Mecole Hardman, TE Isaac… Read More »

OSU OL Jordan enters draft … Ohio State junior OG Michael Jordan, a second-day prospect, has announced that he will be entering the upcoming draft.

Two Aggies enter draft; four others out …  A couple of Texas A&M juniors announced earlier this evening that they will be entering the 2019 draft with RB Trayveon Williams and C Erik McCoy both throwing their hats into the draft ring. The 5-9, 200-pound Williams has some second round potential after running for 1,760 yards and 18… Read More »

Three juniors enter draft; two more staying put … Three more underclassmen have announced they are entering the 2019 draft including Miami DE Joe Jackson, Penn State RB Miles Sanders and Auburn WR Darius Slayton. All three are juniors with Jackson rated as a second rounder and Sanders a rising late second day prospect. Meanwhile, Slayton could also… Read More »

Top Big 10 LB, others return to school … Lost a bit in yesterday’s rush of underclassmen to the NFL was the fact that at least three young players also announced they would be returning to school including rising Northwestern redshirt sophomore MLB Paddy Fisher, who would have been among the first 2-3 players at the position off… Read More »

Passel of juniors enter draft … As expected, with the major bowls now in the books, there was a rush of announcements of underclassmen opting to enter the upcoming draft today including four players from Penn State. The Nittany Lions entering the draft include C/G Connor McGovern, G/T Ryan Bates, DE Shareef Miller, and DT Kevin Givens. Others… Read More »

UDub S Rapp; Michigan TE Gentry enter draft … Two more juniors have announced today that they will be entering the upcoming draft including Washington SS Taylor Rapp and Michigan TE Zach Gentry. Rapp, in particular, has at least some late first round potential, while Gentry is an intriguing prospect who really wasn’t expected to turn pro this… Read More »